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Geelong Thursday Night 22MAY 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Join us at the Shorts place Projector this thursday as we launch our new projection program with Life in Australia: Geelong.. We will gather and share stories. Register via

tickets.geelongaustralia.com.au/event/life-i...

all welcome

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May 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Intervention — “533 Geographers Call for Action on Transphobic Developments in the UK, its Supreme Court, and the EHRC” antipodeonline.org/2025/05/06/5...
Intervention — “533 Geographers Call for Action on Transphobic Developments in the UK, its Supreme Court, and the EHRC” - Antipode Online
Jay Todd, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow In the UK and globally, we are witnessing eliminationist attacks on trans and gender diverse people that are attempting to cr...
antipodeonline.org
May 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Excellent essay on Trump and Japan, which was his first trade deficit obsession back in the 80's, and on how to manage an economic decline in grace.
A More Graceful American Decline
The US trade war is a result of domestic elites’ refusal to accept America’s relative decline. The recent experience of Japan shows how economic decline can be managed.
jacobin.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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‘Pacific, temperate, egalitarian, avowedly non-violent, the epitome of unimpeachable, quietist radicalism: if the police can do this to the Quakers, what could they do to you?’

James Butler on last week’s Met Police raid on a Quaker meeting house in Westminster: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
James Butler | As the Met bruised in
Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the doors...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM